No Boulder Pick for DEATH BATTLE Than Rocky the Rock!

                                 

Rocky, the Rock

Rocky the Rock was created by Diego Palacios, it can be read on Tapas

Welcome back to the blog! It's been a while, but I'm ready to come out of hibernation. I will say though, the previously teased blog will be pushed back for a while. It has a lot of moving parts and I'd rather not rush the process.

To make up for that, you're getting a blog about a rock today. Like, an actual rock. I don't know how I've made blogs on three different characters named Rocky, but this really is the Rockiest of them all.

It must feel so disappointing to wait so many months, only for me to create a blog on an inanimate stone… you aren't prepared for what you're about to read.

Background

"This is the legend of a hero capable of doing the impossible… He isn’t afraid of anything… he’s unstoppable in combat… his speed can’t be perceived by the human eye… and his wisdom transcends words… He is the chosen one and our savior… the mighty Rocky the Rock!"

As foretold in an ancient prophecy, a hero would one day fall from the sky to save the world from the evil Lord Deus and his underlings. Today is when the hero of legend would make their grand entrance to the world.

The answer would be found at the Temple of Shan-pu, a school where all fighters with great potential are trained in combat by its ninja master. As the Shan-Pu Master pondered who could possibly be the chosen one among his disciples, a giant rock flew through the roof of the temple.

Screw all his students, the rock is the chosen one.

Rocky the Rock may appear to be a completely average space rock… and he is. He really is just an inanimate immobile rock, BUT YOU'RE STILL WRONG. Underneath his stony exterior is a deeply tragic past. Long ago he lived with his family in another galaxy, until the papers attacked. They destroyed his planet and everyone he loved, but he survived and barreled through space until he wound up on Earth.

Everyone treats Rocky like he’s a noble hero, painting him as a mysterious, wise, kind soul whose silence demonstrates humbleness and sage-like tranquility. He's unflappable, indestructible, and wants nothing in exchange for helping others.

The only person who sees Rocky for what he really is is Kimura, a pyrokinetic and eager wannabe hero who trained hard to be the hero… only to be upstaged by a rock. At least he's still part of the prophecy as Rocky's foretold sidekick/rival.

And so Shan-Pu Master makes Kimura accompany Rocky on a perilous journey to the underwater oracle to learn how exactly to save the world. They're ambushed by all sorts of foes… and somehow Rocky beats them all singlehandedly. All attacks against his boulder body are repelled; he's way better at wiping out enemies than the trained martial artist traveling with him.

On their quest they're joined by a girl named Jenny after Rocky saves her. She fawns over him the whole way through, and is somehow able to communicate with him. She and everyone except Kimura seem to "understand" Rocky by listening with their heart, but deep down nobody really gets him. He’s just too complex……

They faced many perilous obstacles on the way, but thanks to Rocky the trio made it to the oracle of water and learn the details of how to beat Lord Deus. Basically, the big bad is trying to channel the powers of an ancient evil demon that was sealed away in a devious puzzle that looks like a Rubik's Cube. To stop him they must collect 6 relics known as the parallelepipeds of the dragon. Gathering all six together will summon an ancient djinn dragon to grant them a wish.

Lord Deus is more than aware of the three heroes' efforts to stop him, and he isn't about to underestimate a fucking rock. The papers are fated to invade and destroy this world too, so Lord Deus is trying to prevent that by stopping the heroes' quest. If world relies too much on chosen one, they’ll be powerless to stop the papers, so he's challenging the world to prepare them.

He has several plans in motion like corrupting the jealous Kimura’s heart to turn him against his friends. Not only does he have plenty of powerful minions, but right before the webcomic stopped updating his forces were about to recruit another survivor of his planet's destruction… Rocky's girlfriend Roxie.

Who knows how this crazy adventure will wrap up if the author ever returns to this series. Still, you can't deny there's no other hero that rocks quite like Rocky!

Experience and Skill

Rocky is the pinnacle of martial arts and heroism, unmatched in close combat. Everyone besides stupid dumb idiots like Kimura hail Rocky as a fountain of wisdom. That makes sense considering Rocky is 2,000 years old (though that’s like 20 in human years).

Ever since he landed on Earth, he's been a force to be reckoned with. Despite being a literal immobile rock, he rocked every sorry fool that crossed his path—goblins, trained martial artists and spellcasters, giant monsters, not even ghosts are able to beat him. His best moments are thanks to environmental coincidences that put him in outstanding positions, that or his foes underestimating him.

Equipment

Headband

It's the very same headband that belonged to the founder of the Temple of Shan-Pu. Thanks to the wind, his headband swishing against people is often mistaken for hugs. It can also cause people to trip.

Diving Suit

I'm pretty sure he doesn't need it.

Salt

Rocky was splashed by saltwater while on a ship. As is known in this world, salt is a tool used to expel ghosts. Thus, any ghost approaching him will be exorcised. Yes, the literal rock has hax, be afraid.

Abilities

High Durability

Rocky is no ordinary rock, as he's made of an extremely hard material from another planet. He was able to endure falling from space. With a body as tough as his, he's completely unfazed by all attacks.

Reflective Surface

Similarly all projectiles just bounce off of him.

Self-Sustenance (Types 1, 2, and 3)

Bro is a rock, he doesn't need to breathe in space. Actually, he doesn't require anything to live, doesn't he? People have interpreted him resting before, but let's be real, he's a rock.

Pressure Points

This rock can target pressure points, what the actual fuck.

Resistances

• Fire resistance: As is the case in real life, most rocks resist burning
• Corrosion resistance: As an inorganic being he resists the sea dragon’s acid breath that melts organic matter
• Soul manipulation resistance:  Roxie was immune to Lord Deus’ flames of heck, which burns the soul of anyone based on the weight of their sins. Roxie is completely virtuous…… and a rock, so it doesn’t work. Since Roxie is the same as Rocky, this applies to him.

Techniques

The Technique of Absolute Stillness

Rocky is a master of the advanced fighting art of stillness. He never moves an inch or fights back, and yet nothing can hurt or even flinch him. In this one move, he has flawlessly perfected counterattacks.

Jenny tried to replicate this technique in combat and only managed to get captured by Medusa. She just had to learn the hard way that standing still and doing nothing to defend yourself is a technique combat masters like Rocky are only capable of performing exceptionally.

Tripping

A technique simply too incomprehensible for the human mind to process. If you approach him at this reckless of a speed, you've already lost the battle.

Meteor Strike

What goes up must come back down. Whenever Rocky is thrown high into the air, his stone body plummets towards the ground. His heavy mass accelerates his motion and his body catches on fire. Anyone unfortunate enough to find themselves under him is surely to be K.O.’d.

Armageddon Smash

You have no idea how glad I am to have looked through the Q&A account, otherwise I wouldn’t have discovered this glorious crossover fight between Rocky and Raylie Rage from Me and Myselfs. Me and Myselfs is a super brief webcomic that hardly lasted as long as Rocky the Rock, so I'm perfectly fine with this crossover being included for research.

To explain what's happening here, Rocky tempers through Raylie’s furious fire attacks with the stability of inner peace…… and rams her through three whole planets.

Feats

Overall

• No-sold bodybuilder goblins
• Braved through the Forest of Other Dangers
• Stopped an evil whale from eating his friends
• Banished a few vengeful ghosts of Captain Garrick’s crew and helped the remaining few peacefully pass on
• Beat the menacing sea dragon

• Knows CPR

Strength

• Crashed through a roof from space
• He reflected an energy projectile into a tree, causing it to fall
• Medusa’s minion bounced off of him, causing a domino effect as every other minion behind him fell one by one
• Tripped Medusa’s giant amalgam minion, causing it to explode
• Beat a sea monster that dwarfed a pirate ship
• Breaks through wood
• In the crossover with Raylie Rage, Rocky rammed Raylie through three planets and cracked the fourth they landed on

Speed

• He's so fast, his speed can't be perceived by the human eye………
• Rocky was blown off his planet after it exploded. His body traveled across space until he wound up in Earth’s galaxy and crashed onto the planet

Durability

• Withstood the Abdominable Strike attack. He's so tough that this buff goblin cracked his abs against his rocky body.
• Survived his home planet blowing up
• A whale broke their teeth trying to bite into him
• Reflected a burning cannonball
• The shadow replica disguised as Roxie tried to attack Rocky, but her stone weaponry broke against his body
• In the crossover, Rocky withstood a fireball that dwarfed the planet. The attack landing caused an enormous explosion that bounced him off planets and satellites.

Scaling

• Kimura's Great Ancient Fireball looks to be a little taller than mountaintops
• The Shang-Pu Master can make afterimages as he moves
• Jenny busted up Medusa's face after falling and taking her with her, turning her face into a Picasso painting
• A bodybuilder goblin dodges his own reflected energy projectile
• The sea dragon reacted to a cannonball
• Rylie Rage can fight at a planetary scale
• In the last page right before the series suddenly stopped updating, it was heavily implied that Roxie was about to withstand a meteor hurling towards her. Doesn't count since it didn't happen, but I'm too salty not to mention it. FML……

Weaknesses

• Can’t actually move on his own
• Can’t talk
• Is literally just a rock

Matchup Potential

Rocky the Rock vs Planty the Potted Plant (Rocky the Rock vs Phineas and Ferb)

(thumbnail by Vibe Check)

Vibe Check

A character like Rocky is ripe for joke matchups. I did consider Rocky, Patrick's pet rock from Spongebob, but I decided to go with a character that doesn't just appear in one episode. What you see is what you get with this: literally just a plant and a rock that are somehow accomplished heroes. The dynamic would center around environmental interference causing these two to clash so hard that it culminates in planet-level destruction.

HAPPY APRIL FOOL'S!!!!!!

NEXT TIME ON WCAB… whenever I feel like it

Cerintha Pierces the Heavens in DEATH BATTLE!

                                

Cerintha, the Visi Sorceress

Cerintha was created by Cope, it can be read on Comic Genesis, ComicFury and The Duck Webcomics

Welcome back to the blog! As of writing this, the ancient webcomic platform Comic Genesis is defunct. I don't know if it will return or not (update: it's back up, woohoo), but it's been on death's door for a while so chances are many webcomics hosted on there will be lost to time. To commemorate it, I'd like to go over a completed webcomic hosted on the platform that's thankfully still available to read elsewhere. Hopefully this message becomes outdated since I have a LOT of webcomics on my readlist that use Comic Genesis.

Background

"Do I look dangerous?! Look at my sticky-uppy hair! It's stupid! I don't even know why it does that!"

Cerintha always adored the Roman Empire. She loves its culture, history, power, prestige and excess. She wishes to live there so badly that she learned Latin and converted to the symbolum nicaenum in advance. Once she resides there, she can live a cushy and comfortable life and drink all the wine she wants.

Unfortunately for her, she was born a visigoth barbarian in the restless times of the Empire's dying years. Romans and barbarians are constantly at odds with each other since the Romans want to conquer and enslave them.

That didn't stop Cerintha from joining the Roman legion, along with her best friend Hellebore… even though Cerintha's not totally equipped for the job. She's an excellent swordswoman, but she's also a bumbling, cowardly, and lazy soldier with an aversion to confrontation. She winds up deserting the army when the barbarous eastern hordes overran them.

This consequently made a rival out of Hellebore for breaking the warrior's unspoken pact. Now she follows Cerintha everywhere to kill her in an honorable duel.

A year later, our hero is serving in the visi army as a sentry, though she mostly just sleeps through the job. She doesn't care about the war, just wanting to be paid. Thankfully her strict and irritable captain Larkspur is around to whip her into shape the best he can. It's a tiresome job for Cerintha, but hopefully it will lead to her living happily in Roma.

In a roundabout way it did, just nowhere in the way she could've expected.

Before I go on, there are two things you need to know about how this fifth-century setting differs from our timeline. For starters, the gender roles are swapped with women in power. Secondly, magic—or more commonly called sorcery—is real. Only women are capable of harboring magic, but it's such a rarity these days.

I needed to mention this because Cerintha's status quo is permanently changed when the Empire sends their greatest weapon to the barbarians. Discordia. She's an unnaturally powerful sorceress, or more accurately a living superweapon known for her cataclysmic move heavenfall. She nukes the visi army after they attempted to assassinate her. Since Larkspur was searching for Cerintha, who fled in fear of Hellebore finding her, the two are the sole survivors of Discordia's wrath.

For once, Cerintha's incompetence played in her favor. However, she'd become far more crucial in the war once she encounters a mysterious sorcerer named Hemlock, who witnessed the disaster firsthand. To avert more disasters she bestows Cerintha the Sky Relic, a magic artifact with destructive magic similar to Discordia. She's even able to use heavenfall, but can't control it.

Hemlock tasks her to meet her in Roma to compensate her as per their agreement, so that becomes Cerintha and Larkspur's destination. Although Discordia is largely dealt with by Hemlock, Cerintha's encounters with her do unlock the Sky Relic's destructive abilities that rivals the Roman sorcerer's.

Along with that, Cerintha starts having cryptic dreams of a robed figure, stating how she's the herald of the goddess Atropa and that their fellowship will consume the world. As she comes to learn, these visions may be tied with the death cult the Cult of Atropa.

Cerintha can't wrap her head around such bizarre ideas, not that they matter much when she's on her way to her beloved Empire! Adding to that goal, the two want to find a sorcerous weapon that's capable of expelling the Sky Relic from Cerintha since she can hardly control such hazardous sorcery.

Thankfully they'd have their lead once they reach Roma, all while avoiding Hellebore. Empress Honey, leader of the barbarous eastern hordes trying to take over the Empire, wields a weapon capable of removing the Sky Relic.

Cerintha gets into plenty of shenanigans in Roma, including being temporarily elected as the new captain of their army. To jump to the meat of things, Honey is beaten not by Cerintha, but Hemlock. Turns out Hemlock isn't much of a saint. Not only did she lie about the gold she promised to lure Cerintha here, but she's actually an assumed dead Roman leader named Angitia.

Angitia massacred the Atropans to secure the Sky Relic they sought to use for destruction, keeping it for herself, but it wasn't something she could sustain forever. She chose wrong to bestow it to Cerintha, as her lack of control could actually lead to the end of all things. She decides to kill the visi and find a more suitable vessel.

Thankfully Hellebore arrives just in time to kill Angitia, at the same time Cerintha's powers go haywire and build up heavenfall… the perfect setting for a climactic duel between the two!

While Cerintha is capable of killing Hellebore as a shockingly competent fighter, ultimately she doesn’t want to. She considers Hellebore her only friend, but if she doesn’t face her she won’t stop hunting her. Since these may as well be her final moments, Cerintha goes with it and faces her friend. Cerintha is victorious in killing Hellebore, but couldn't delay her heavenfall.

Thankfully during the fight, the Sky Relic is channeled into Honey's sword. Cerintha uses it to banish the Sky Relic and destroy her own heavenfall, saving the world.

With that, the cultist apparition fades from her mind. Before parting, they give her parting words to help her grieve loss of Hellebore and convince her to live her life to her fullest. Even though Hellebore is gone, at least Larkspur is still around to keep watch over her. New adventures await the remaining barbarians, which are explored in the second book.

Cerintha isn't as involved in the story as she is in the prior book, but it's notable to go over.

Time has passed to the point that the Empire had become Constantinopolis. Even after saving the world, beating Hellebore, and proving that she can massacre entire armies, she's still a peabrain afraid of her own shadow. That being said, she and Larkspur do go on wild quests, like traveling to the temples of Aegypta to hunt for treasure.

Cerintha and Larkspur are currently trying to catch the fiendish Apate, who sent them on that wild goose chase, stole their gold, and left them to die in a temple with a living limestone statue known as the Ancient Wanderer. The hulking statue followed them all the way to Constantinopolis and the Romans are convinced she is responsible for this evil sorcery.

It vaguely lines up with visions an oracle named Adeona has, having seen Cerintha in her visions as an immensely powerful barbarian sorcerer in the future of a corrupt immortal sorcerer named Humati. Countless warriors fell to her blade, and destruction lies in her name, yet when their paths cross, Cerintha is nothing like she appeared in her visions.

While Adeona initially didn't see how Cerintha could be a threat, she was more convinced when she received visions of the barbarian massacring centurions before killing her. All the futures she saw were painted in blood.

Cerintha is eventually captured and Humati interrogates to explain how she weaponized the statue, but she's exposed to how much of a fool Cerintha is. When the Ancient Wanderer barges in, Humati figures out how to override its command. Now she's unstoppable in her crusade to kill all barbarians, starting with Cerintha who knows too much.

To stop Cerintha, Adeona splashes her with sacred waters she uses for visions, which is supposed to plague her with delusions that would drive anyone mad, then to death. These trippy hallucinations urged Cerintha that it’s kill or be killed, and she winds up massacring guards in retaliation and bloodlust, saving Adeona for last.

Thankfully Cerintha recovers by the time Larkspur finds her, and together they deal with Humati and the statue. Both are destroyed once and for all.

With all that crazy out of the way, they book it out of Roma to go on more adventures.

Experience and Skill

Cerintha is a coward and has a brain the size of a walnut, there's no denying that. Regardless, she's surprisingly really competent at fighting when she puts in the effort. She had combat experience prior to joining the army, having been taught swordplay by her parents and served in Roma's legionary for three years. It does occasionally seem like she bumbles her way to her victory, but she does have the talent and surprise factor to give her an edge.

She has taken down entire platoons singlehandedly and battled the likes of Discordia and Honey and lived. She somehow even outsmarted foes in combat, like when she influenced Febris to cut the rope tying her arms behind her back mid-combat (didn't account for her tied legs though).

When it comes to magic, she doesn't have much experience wielding the Sky Relic. This led to her nearly wiping out areas with heavenfall on multiple occasions. She did become more skilled in sorcery to the point where she could use it in combat, along with successfully ejecting the Sky Relic to thwart her own heavenfall.

It also shouldn't be understated how great she is at hiding…… and getting lost.

Equipment

The Sky Relic

Magical power comes from two sources: earthly or heavenly. Whereas earthly pertains to naturally residing in individuals, heavenly refers to an unseen magic firmament coating the entire world. The Sky Relic is a piece of that firmament. It's an ancient magic relic that was bestowed to Cerintha by Angitia.

Doubling as the herald of the goddess Atropa, the Sky Relic lets her access unfathomably disastrous sorcery. The cloaked cultist in her visions/dreams is actually a manifestation of sorcerous energy given autonomous form, imprinted on the Sky Relic by the Atropans. The Sky Relic becomes more restless more she uses magic, leading to more destructive potential.

It produces a lot of sorcerous energy so it's easy to track. It should also be noted that Angitia was able to utilize the Sky Relic's power while Cerintha still bore it through physical contact.

Gladius

Swords are drawn pretty small in this webcomic, but this is indeed a Roman gladius. She's shockingly skilled at swinging that thing around, seasoned warriors are never prepared for her frantic strikes. Her gladius did break during her fight with Honey, but she has a more impressive sword I'll describe later.

Knife

Okay I know I just said the swords are drawn short but I'm 99% sure that's a knife.

Sword of Mars

Forged for the god of war, it's an unbreakable gladius infused with heavenly sorcery. It has potential to banish sky relic into it by wielding it in combat. During Cerintha’s fight with Hellebore, the sky relic shifted into the sword, becoming its new vessel before unleashing it back into the sky in a burst of sorcerous energy. With this sword she can still channel sorcery with beams and electric zaps. It shattered when she impaled the Ancient Wanderer with it.

Abilities

Sorcery

Sorcery, magic, however you want to call it is present throughout the world. Sorcery is exclusive to women in this setting. Cerintha wasn't born with the aptitude for it, rather accessing it after becoming the Sky Relic's vessel. Since then, Cerintha has been able to use it in various ways. She can shoot sorcerous beams, omnidirectional zaps, infuse sorcery into her gladius, etc.

CQC

She got them baps.

Resistances

• Tracking and Clairvoyance resistance: When the oracle performed a ritual to locate Cerintha, this vapor vision of Cerintha's future self noticed and attacked the oracle. This hasn't really been explained.
• Madness manipulation resistance: Cerintha was splashed with sacred waters, which would've driven her mad with illusions. She recovered, not before going on an illusion-clouded killing spree.

Techniques

Heavenfall

AKA Heaven's Wrath is a devastating sorcerous attack Discordia uses to wipe out entire towns. When active, the clouds above appear to wind into a spiral before a massive ball of magic hurls down from the sky to decimate everything unfortunate enough to be caught under it.

Heavenfall is basically calling upon a piece of the magic firmament covering the whole world, and raining it down. The results are so devastating, that people believe Discordia is weaponizing heaven itself. Turns out, Cerintha can do that too after becoming the Sky Relic's vessel!

Her herald status makes hers extra deadly, like world-threatening deadly. Once it reaches a calamitous state, electricity starts crackling out of it like a lightning storm.

Feats

Overall

• Previously a legionary in Roma’s army for 3 years
• Massacred a bunch of barbarians chasing her
• Matched Honey in combat. She’s the only one to have struck down Honey in a frontal assault
• Killed Hellebore in a one-on-one duel
• Prevented a potential apocalypse by overpowering the Sky Relic’s heavenfall
• Avoided being killed by an Ancient Wanderer statue from Aegyptus
• Killed a bunch of guards while under the effects of the sacred waters

Strength

• Sent Hellebore flying
• Caused a wall-level explosion
• Can do the same heavenfall as Discordia, which can wipe out entire towns. The Sky Relic has more destructive potential than Discordia.
• The Sky Relic is capable of huge beam attacks, which easily disintegrate anything in its path
• Cerintha shot through a pillar
• Caused a string of small explosions
• According to Angitia, Cerintha's destructive capabilities are potentially world-threatening
• Her fight with Angitia caused the destruction of a temple
• Heavenfall can cause lightning storms
• Cerintha eviscerated Hellebore
• She stopped her own heavenfall with her sword as she ejected the Sky Relic
• Sliced through a bunch of guards while under the effects of the sacred waters
• Exploded the Ancient Wanderer in seemingly a building-level explosion

Speed

• Cerintha has high reflexes, easily able to dodge Hellebore's attacks
• Dodges Angitia's sorcerous beams
• Does a lil scurry where her legs have smear frames
• Quickly climbed up a tree

Durability

• Survived Discordia's blast, which previously destroyed a head
• Was knocked out with a head-bonk

Scaling

Larkspur & Hellebore

The two closest people Cerintha has to friends (even though they terrify her), so she ought to scale to them.

• Larkspur ran so fast his legs did a Sonic spin
• Larkspur survived electrocution
• Larkspur was knocked out after being hit in the head by a fish that was punched into the sky 100 pages earlier
• Hellebore survived being magically zapped by Cerintha
• Hellebore fatally stabbed Angitia

They Who Must Not Be Named…… and other baddies!

The villains Cerintha faces against are often so frightening and notoriously powerful that simply uttering their names are a sign of misfortune to come. Some of her enemies don't have this luxury, but they're notable enough to feature anyway.

• Discordia set a village on fire
• Discordia destroyed a head
• Discordia wiped out the barbarian army with heavenfall. Due to poor framing and Larkspur being too distracted, the radius of the destruction is unknown. This attack regularly affects the clouds.
• Discordia destroyed a building
• Discordia is easily capable of destroying villages
• Discordia absorbed Cerintha's heavenfall right as it fell on her
• Discordia seemingly destroyed a city block
• Empress Honey threw a fish really far into the air, it returned to the Earth after 100 pages. It moved so fast it broke the sound barrier.
• Empress Honey sliced off an arm
• Empress Honey deflected a magic projectile
• Empress Honey survived being struck by lightning
• Angitia avoided being hit by heavenfall
• Angitia deflected one of Discordia's attacks
• Angitia set fire to the Atropans' village and killed nearly everyone in it
• The Ancient Wanderer consistently breaks through walls and falls through floors

Weaknesses

• Cerintha doesn't really grow out of being a giant coward
• More so the Sky Relic’s tool than its controller. She couldn’t stop summoning heavenfall before being knocked out
• As an untrained magic user, she couldn't relinquish the Sky Relic under her own power without dying
• By far the least intelligent character I’ve covered in my blogs so far
• She is really materialistic, caring about Roman wine and baths more than anything else
• Her greasy hands once led to her accidentally letting her sword fall

Matchup Potential

Cerintha vs Dave the Barbarian (Cerintha vs Dave the Barbarian)

(thumbnail by Vibe Check)

Vibe Check

Now this is a blast from the past! It's essentially a duel between exceedingly cowardly barbarian protagonists in spite their overwhelming power. It's been ages since I've last seen Dave the Barbarian so I don't know what the debate is like, but the general theme alone makes for a really entertaining fight.

There aren't many sword fights on Death Battle with an emphasis on comedy, so something like this would stick out. With Dave the Barbarian included, the narrator absolutely needs to be part of the fight. His talking sword Lula can add an extra layer of banter to this already funny fight. Given how many chase scenes are in Cerintha, I imagine the fight needs to include that before she locks in.

NEXT TIME ON WCAB… whenever I feel like it